Match Day 2013

On Match Day, Friday, March 15, this year's soon-to-be graduates will find out where
they will spend their residencies.

"The Match, " or "Match Day" at Meharry is a day of family celebration when—in a crowded
auditorium full of hopeful doctors—parents, grandparents, and other family members
accompany final-year medical students to the podium to announce where the student
will be spending residency upon graduation.

Nationwide, on the third Friday of March each year, soon-to-be graduates from across
the nation are paired, or matched, with residency programs. All 141 accredited U.S.
medical schools announce Match results on the same day.

Photo from Match Day 2012.

Match Day at Meharry is a time of excitement and sometimes spontaneous family reaction
to the news, like this scene from last year.